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Encounters on the opposite coast : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century /
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- Title
- Encounters on the opposite coast : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century /
- Author/Creator
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Vink, Marcus P. M.
- Publisher
- Brill
- Publisher Date
- [2016].
- Description
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" In Encounters of the Opposite Coast, Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the ' great southern Nayakas ' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India ( c. 1645-1690 ). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the ' age of contained conflict. ' Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a ' black hole in South Indian history. ' " -- The last page of cover.
- Subject
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Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--17th century
Acculturation--India--Madurai (District)--History--17th century
Culture conflict--India--Madurai (District)--History--17th century
Netherlands--Commerce--History--India--Madurai (District)--17th century
Madurai (India : District)--Commerce--History--Netherlands--17th century
Netherlands--Relations--India--Madurai (District)
Madurai (India : District)--Relations--Netherlands
Madurai (India : District)--History--17th century
- Library URL
- 991000028979706306
